Israel Scheffler (November 25, 1923 – February 16, 2014) was an American

philosopher of science Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

and of education.

Career

Scheffler held B.A. and M.A. degrees in psychology from

Brooklyn College Brooklyn College is a public university in Brooklyn in New York City, United States. It is part of the City University of New York system and enrolls nearly 14,000 students on a campus in the Midwood and Flatbush sections of Brooklyn as of fall ...

, an M.H.L. and a D.H.L. (Hon.) from the

Jewish Theological Seminary of America The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) is a Conservative Jewish education organization in New York City, New York. It is one of the academic and spiritual centers of Conservative Judaism as well as a hub for academic scholarship in Jewish studies ...

.Department of Philosophy
Professor Emeritus Israel Scheffler
''The

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

Website'', retrieved October 18, 2010 He defended his doctoral thesis, ''On Quotation'', at the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. One of nine colonial colleges, it was chartered in 1755 through the efforts of f ...

in 1952, where he studied with

Nelson Goodman Henry Nelson Goodman (7 August 1906 – 25 November 1998) was an American philosopher, known for his work on counterfactuals, mereology, the problem of induction, irrealism, and aesthetics. Life and career Goodman was born in Somerville, Ma ...

and began teaching that year at

, where he spent his career. He retired in 1992. His main interests lay in the philosophical interpretation of language, symbolism, science and education. He was a Fellow of the

American Academy of Arts and Sciences The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (The Academy) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States. It was founded in 1780 during the American Revolution by John Adams, John Hancock, James Bowdoin, Andrew Oliver, and other ...

, a founding member of the National Academy of Education and a past president of both the

Philosophy of Science Association The Philosophy of Science Association (PSA) is an international academic organization founded in 1933 that promotes research, teaching, and free discussion of issues in the philosophy of science from diverse standpoints. The PSA engages in activi ...

and the

Charles S. Peirce Charles Sanders Peirce ( ; September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914) was an American scientist, mathematician, logician, and philosopher who is sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism". According to philosopher Paul Weiss, Peirce was "the m ...

Society.

Publications

His works have been translated from English into French, German, Italian, Spanish, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Persian.Scheffler Israel's 'Books'
''WorldCat.Org'', retrieved April 23, 2010

Books

*Scheffler, Israel. ''The Anatomy of Inquiry; Philosophical Studies in the Theory of Science''. New York: Knopf, 1963. OCLC 526705 *Scheffler, Israel. ''Philosophy and Education: Modern Reading''s. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1966. OCLC 397699249 *Scheffler, Israel.'' Science and Subjectivity''. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1967. OCLC 374512 *Scheffler, Israel. ''Four Pragmatists: A Critical Introduction to Peirce, James, Mead, and Dewey''. New York: Humanities Press, 1971. *Scheffler, Israel, Nelson Goodman, and Richard Rudner. ''Logic and Art''. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co, 1972. *Scheffler, Israel. ''Reason and Teaching''. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1973. *Scheffler, Israel.'' Beyond the Letter: A Philosophical Inquiry into Ambiguity, Vagueness, and Metaphor in Language.'' International library of philosophy and scientific method. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979. *Scheffler, Israel. ''Conditions of Knowledge: An Introduction to Epistemology and Education''. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978, *Scheffler, Israel. ''The Language of Education''. Springfield: Ill, 1983. *Scheffler, Israel. ''Of Human Potential: An Essay in the Philosophy of Education''. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985. *Scheffler, Israel. ''Inquiries: Philosophical Studies of Language, Science, & Learning''. Indianapolis: Hackett Pub. Co, 1986. *Scheffler, Israel. ''In Praise of the Cognitive Emotions and Other Essays in the Philosophy of Education.'' New York: Routledge, 1991. 9780415903646 (a Collection of articles spanning 1974 to 1990.) *Scheffler, Israel. ''Symbolic Worlds: Art, Science, Language, Ritual''. Cambridge ngland Cambridge University Press, 1997. *Scheffler, Israel. ''Worlds of Truth: A Philosophy of Knowledge''. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.

Autobiographies

*Scheffler, Israel. ''Teachers of My Youth: An American Jewish Experience.'' Philosophy and education, v. 5. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995. *Scheffler, Israel. ''Gallery of Scholars: A Philosopher's Recollections''. Philosophy and education, v. 13. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004.

References

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